Aotea CRL presentation July 2019

Aotea & C1/C2 Community Liaison Group Meeting 3 July 2019

Agenda • Introduction to the Link Alliance

• Overview of works program • Upcoming utility investigation and diversion works • Preparation of draft management plans for those utility works • Wider project update

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Introductions •

Dale Burtenshaw, Deputy Alliance Director

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Hugh Leersnyder, Environment, Sustainability & Planning Manager

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Rachel Blundell, Senior Communications & Stakeholder Manager

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Sonya Leahy, Stakeholder Communications Manager

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Alisdair Simpson, Senior Planner

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Kim Hardy, Social Impact & Business Disruption Specialist

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Mark Anderson, Utilities Manager

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Matt Sinclair, Aotea Construction Manager

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Introducing the Link Alliance • Alliance model often used to deliver complex and challenging projects

• Promotes innovation and flexibility and helps drive value for money, as companies equally share the gains and the pains involved in delivery

• Link Alliance partners: • Construction: Vinci Construction Grands Projets, Soletanche Bachy International NZ and Downer NZ • Design: AECOM, Tonkin+Taylor, WSP Opus • CRL Limited

• International team with local experience - spanning rail projects in Hong Kong, Singapore, Qatar, Egypt and Auckland’s own Waterview Tunnel

• Knowledge transfer – staff with C1/C2 experience teaming with embedded CRL staff 4

The Link Alliance - delivering Auckland’s first underground

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Overview programme (all dates approximate) Key Milestones

2019

2020

2021

Enabling works, including utilities, demolition

Q3

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Mt Eden Station

Q4

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Karangahape Station

Aotea Station

Testing and commissioning

2022

2023

2024

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Q1

Q1

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Q1

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Q1

Q2

Q4

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What’s happening right now?

• Alliance mobilisation at a temporary office in Ellerslie

• Negotiating PAA with CRL Ltd • Preparing material for communication and engagement about enabling works

• Planning and preparation for early works • Recruitment and staffing • Preparation of management plans for consenting • Establishing interfaces with K Road & C2 projects, C5 & C7 projects

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What’s happening first in Albert Street?

• Utility investigations starting week of mid-late August – taking about a month to complete

• Utility diversions starting at Wyndham St end of Albert St – completed in stages from end of August 2019 until mid 2020

• Seven canopy removals (various locations along Albert St and cnrs of Victoria & Wellesley) – December 2019 to Q2 2020

• Site establishment at Bledisloe carpark – Q4 2019

• Piling and D-wall construction for Aotea Station ground support – starts Q2 2020

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Utility investigations – starting August • Approx 12 investigations needed between Wyndham & Wellesley Streets to pinpoint the location of existing underground utility services to help design their relocation ahead of Aotea Station construction.

• By confirming our assumptions about where exactly the utilities lie, we de-risk the utility diversion works by providing a safer and more robust design for our contractors.

A cross-section of utility services on Albert St

• Approx 2 days’ work at each location

• Some noise from concrete cutting, minor excavation and Hydrovac machine (sucks material away from services)

• Noise mats will help buffer ground-floor businesses and pedestrians from work-related noise.

Noise mats

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Wellesley St

Victoria St

Location of utility investigations

Indicative locations of trial trenches to investigate service locations.

Small work areas will be set up at each location to complete the works.

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Utility diversions – late August to mid-2020 Why do we need to divert utility services?

• Some services clash with the alignment of the piles that will support the station structure

• There is insufficient space for utilities infrastructure between the underground roof of the station and road level

• It’s safer to excavate and construct the station with all the utility services out of the way.

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Utility diversion works – Stage 1

Late Aug 2019 – Oct 2019

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Utility diversion works – Stage 2

Oct – Dec 2019

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Utility diversion works – Stage 3

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020

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Managing utility diversions • We appreciate that utility diversions will be noisy and disruptive and will work to manage negative impacts as much as practicably possible.

• Property access will be maintained. However, there may be times when we need to liaise with you about the timing of works directly outside your premises to minimise disruption, i.e. weekends or evenings.

• Pedestrians may need to be re-routed around works on the footpath.

• We will use water-filled barriers and temporary fencing wherever possible to maintain visibility for businesses.

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Developing management plans for stages 1 to 3 of Aotea utility relocation works • A suite of management plans are required by the CRL designation and the regional resource consent to manage the effects of construction.

• The management plans are developed by subject matter experts, covering such areas as: • Traffic, access and parking

• We plan to bring our draft management plans to this CLG for input later this month.

• The subject matter experts who have drafted the plans will attend the next CLG meeting so you can provide your feedback directly and ask any questions.

• Noise and vibration • Social impact and business disruption • Air quality

• Contamination • Trees and vegetation

• The plans will then be finalised before undergoing an independent peer review and lodgement with Auckland Council.

• We’re hoping to gain council approval prior to the end of August to enable us to start utility relocation works.

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Consultation to inform draft management plans • The plans outline how we will manage effects during the utility diversions – noise, dust, potential access and parking disruption, etc.

• We need to understand how people could be affected – so that the management plans we prepare are effective.

• The CLG provides valuable input and feedback.

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What’s happening first in Karangahape Road?

• Utility investigations – Beresford Square and corner of Mercury Lane & Cross St – Aug 2019

• Utility diversions – Beresford Sq/Pitt St & Mercury Ln/Cross St – late 2019

• Asbestos testing in Mercury Lane & East St buildings to be demolished – July to Sept 2019

• Asbestos removal and soft-strip/salvage – Sept to Dec 2019

• Site establishment in Beresford Square (former Wilson’s carpark) – Oct 2019

• Demolition – approx. Dec 2019 to Q1 2020

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What’s happening first in Mt Eden?

• Soft-strip & salvage work within the Mt Eden demolition area – aiming for mid-July 2019 start (will take about 3 months)

• Temporary site office established July/Aug at 97 Mt Eden Rd (next to existing station ramp)

• Erection of hoardings around the demolition site – Aug 2019

• Asbestos removal – Aug to Oct 2019 • Demolitions – Sept 2019 to Q1 2020 (approx.)

• Portal works – piling and ground retention for tunnel entrance – starts Dec 2019.

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Communications & Engagement – managing impacts with care & consideration • Interface with connected projects - C1/C2 contract on Albert St & K Road enhancements project

• Development Response – business packs and support • Community Liaison Groups • Working with Mana Whenua, Local Boards, Business Associations and Auckland Council

• Campaigns for significant traffic switches for buses, cyclists and drivers • Activations/events • Hoardings

• Construction updates • Meet the Alliance events

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C1 & C2 update

C2 Albert Street works • Wyndham St has reopened after three years • Aboveground works have started, including installation of new utility services, tree pit construction and new finished footpath and road carriageway

• Tunnel floors and walls are largely complete with only one more section of roof to be poured

• Tunnel box construction expected to be completed by July

• Canopy removals are underway The north tunnel – breaking through to Britomart Station

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Albert St – Canopy removal works • Canopy removal outside SkyCity is complete. An area will remain fenced off to store construction materials • Canopy demolition outside Auckland Council and Manhattan Apartments is complete • Reinstatement works underway outside council and Manhattan with scaffolding scheduled to be removed through July and August • Scaffolding erected outside AA building, demolition works have commenced 23

Albert St traffic switches Stage 3 – completion December 2019

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Albert St traffic switches Stage 4 – completion May 2020

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Albert St traffic switches Stage 5 – completion June 2020

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Albert St traffic switches Stage 6 – completion July 2020

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Albert St traffic switches Stage 7 – completion November 2020

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C1 Britomart & Lower Queen St • Construction of tunnel base slabs underneath the CPO is complete for both tunnels and onstruction of tunnel walls has commenced

• Construction of tunnel base slabs in Lower Queen St is complete and construction of tunnel walls has commenced

• Preparatory works within station underway to allow installation of an additional – fourth – escalator and replace the existing ones with metro grade escalators

• Half a million man hours on C1 with no lost time injuries • Minimal movement of CPO building and minimal effect on adjacent buildings Lower Queen Street

The north tunnel – breaking through to Britomart Station

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Lower Queen St plaza – new design renders

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